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Tables and FiguresTables2.1
Relative importance of ways of staying
informed about local politics 60 5.1
Typology of citizen journalism
124 5.2
List of interviews conducted July–September 2012 137 7.1
The three pure players that
were the focus of research 170 8.1
Motivation of owners (123 local models)
192 8.2
Advertising (123 local models)
193 8.3
Adaptation of professional ethics
196 9.1
Functions of secondary source intervention
in UK hyperlocal blog posts 212
Figures2.1
Coverage of local politics by media organisation
(29 October November 2013)
63 8.1
Geographical distribution of the hyperlocals. Map data © Google 2015 191 9.1
What gets covered Percentage of topics covered
by hyperlocal blog posts 209 9.2
Who gets to speak Percentage of sources either quoted or indirectly cited in UK hyperlocal news Local Journalism.indd 7 4/24/2015 7:10:24 PM
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